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| May-29-15 | | cormier: After 6 months and 36 moves, The World Team defeated GM Arkadij Naiditsch ... |
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Jun-08-15
 | | Willber G: May I ask what the significance of these games is? |
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| Jun-10-15 | | yskid: <Jun-09-15 cormier: for me ... just for fun ....>Thx cormier, I checked all these games and also saved them in the Naiditsch's .pgn for my records for the opening. Fair number of OTB players on international level are using this variant of Spanish. |
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| Jun-18-15 | | Hugin: In case of 13.- c6 14.Bc2 Re8 15.Nb3 d5 16.e5 Bxc2 17.Qxc2 Ne4 18.Be3 a5 19.a4 Nf5 20.Nbd2 Nxd2 21.Qxd2 Qd7 22.Rad1 Bd8 23.Bg5 Ne7 24.Nh4 b6 25.Qe3 Rc8 26.Qf3 Qe6 27.g4 h6 28.Bd2 Ng6 29.Nf5 Nh4 30.Qd3 Qg6 31.Kh2 c5 32.Rg1 cxd4 33.f4 Nxf5 34.gxf5 Qh7 35.Rg2 Be7 36.Be1 Kh8 37.Bf2 Bf8 38.Bxd4 Bc5 39.Bc3 Red8 40.Be1 Be7 41.b3 Rg8 42.Re2 Rge8 43.Rc2 Red8 44.Rxc8 Rxc8 45.Qb1 Qg8 46.Rxd5 Rd8 47.Qe4 Rxd5 48.Qxd5 Qc8 49.f6 Qc2+ 50.Qg2 Qxg2+ 51.Kxg2 gxf6 52.Bh4 Kg7 53.f5 Bd8 54.Kf3 Be7 55.Ke4 Kf8 56.Bxf6 Bb4 57.Kd5 Bc3 58.Bd8 Ke8 59.Bxb6 Ke7 60.Bd4 Bd2 61.Bc5+ 1-0 |
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| Jun-20-15 | | MuzioFan: <Hugin>: Your 15.Nb3 is interesting! It is not on the analysis tree, but looks completely natural (to my unskilled eye, that is), and so does the continuation you give. |
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| Jul-05-15 | | cormier: Jul-05-15
Premium Chessgames Member Pedro Fernandez: Impressive!! 27...a5! by Caruana, and Stockfish did recommend 28.Nd4? (+0.40) and now 28...axb4!! (-2.42). Stockfish didn't see that move. Unbelievable! |
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| Jul-28-15 | | cormier: the Magnus effect ... http://www.viralnova.com/basketball... |
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| Aug-10-15 | | Zhbugnoimt: in Nis-Caru i was kibitzing on ICC and saw 28...axb4!! and everything up to ...Nd6. ICC user OM (Yasser Seirawan) missed that! |
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Aug-10-15
 | | HeMateMe: you guys should contact the young female Indian player who is always featured on ChessBase. That's the real pretty one who's a woman GM and also does some commentary work. she loves publicity; maybe she would like to play one of these types of games? |
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| Aug-13-15 | | cro777: Naiditsch: "I’m not afraid of anybody!
My wife and I have moved to Baku to settle down here. We’ll see how life works out, but we really hope that for at least the next ten years we’ll live in Azerbaijan." https://chess24.com/en/read/news/na... |
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| Aug-28-15 | | yskid: Topalov vs Caruana, 2015 Topalov played novelty in one of main lines - 12.Qb3 - we did not play (our move was 12.a3) but did analyze quite a bit. After 14.a4 Caruana elected a5 rather than a6 after which 15.Qd1 with Nb3--c5 idea. Topalov messed up later (see the commentary at the chessbase, 25.Nc5 e.g.)and lost but his move may be interesting for the future. Black also may have different countermeasures instead of Caruana's plan with 15...Nb8 |
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Sep-25-15
 | | OhioChessFan: Still hate the pun. "Hocus Pocus".....how could they <NOT> pick that........"Hocus Pocus" was the bomb.....and they didn't use it?!......alas. |
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| Dec-18-15 | | cormier: Last update: 18 December 2015, 20:11 GMT
Classic
# ↑↓ Name Classic +/−
1 Carlsen
2 ↑2 Kramnik 2817.0 40
3 ↑5 Giri 21
4 ↑2 Aronian 33
5 Nakamura 2884.0
6 ↑1 Caruana 2665.0
7 ↑4 Vachier-Lagrave 2871.0
8 ↓5 Anand 2764.0
9 ↓7 Topalov 2647.0
10 So
11 ↓2 Ding Liren 2688 i
12 Karjakin 2801.0
13 Eljanov
14 ↑5 Harikrishna 2661.0
15 Li Chao
16 ↑1 Grischuk 2851.0
17 ↓3 Svidler 2754.0
18 ↓2 Mamedyarov 2748.0
19 ↑1 Adams 44
20 ↓2 Tomashevsky 2733.0
21 Jakovenko 32
22 Yu Yangyi 2708.0
23 Andreikin 25
24 Dominguez 32
25 Gelfand
26 ↑1 Wei Yi 16
27 ↓1 Navara 30
28 ↑3 Wojtaszek 2674.0
29 ↓1 Radjabov 2800.0
30 Vitiugov 28
31 ↑4 Bu Xiangzhi 2660.0
32 ↑1 Rapport
33 ↓1 Le Quang Liem 2799.0
34 ↓5 Wang Yue 2694.0
35 ↓1 Korobov 30
36 ↑1 Ivanchuk 2811.0
37 ↑1 Ponomariov 2730.0
38 ↑2 Nepomniachtchi 2813.0
39 ↑3 Leko
40 ↑3 Sargissian 2743.0
41 ↑3 Kasimdzhanov 2736.0
42 ↓3 Fressinet 2713.0 |
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| Dec-28-15 | | Dionyseus: Komodo 9.3, the recent champion of the TCEC 8 tournament, with contempt set to 0 prefers 12.Qb3: Analysis by Komodo 9.3 64-bit C0:
12.Qb3 d5 13.e5
= (0.07 ++) Depth: 33 00:35:20 14146MN, tb=142 After 12.a3 it thinks that 12...a6 should have been played: Analysis by Komodo 9.3 64-bit C0:
12...a6 13.Ba4 h6 14.Nc4 Bxf3 15.gxf3 Ba7 16.Ne3 Ng6 17.Nf5 c5 18.Be3 b5 19.Bb3 Ne7 20.Ng3 Ng6 21.Nf5
= (0.00) Depth: 36 00:27:53 11709MN, tb=149 |
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| Feb-04-16 | | Boomie: <Zhbugnoimt: Yasser Seirawan missed that!> Yaz prefers to comment without the aid of a computer. He does miss some stuff, as he would readily admit. But his commentary is more human in a way. |
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| Mar-08-16 | | yskid: Interesting points well explained in an interview with ICCF 28th World Champion http://en.chessbase.com/post/better... http://en.chessbase.com/post/better... |
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| Mar-11-16 | | cro777: Today, in the first round of the Candidates' Tournament, Anand and Topalov repeated the opening of this game (Anti-Berlin with 4.d3) 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. O-O d6 6. c3 O-O 7. Nbd2 Ne7 8.
d4 exd4 9. cxd4 Bb6 10. Re1 Bg4
click for larger viewHere, instead of 12.a4 (this move was the subject of intense discussion), Anand opted for 12.a3. |
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| Mar-11-16 | | cro777: In fact, in the aforementioned game it is Anand who played 12.a4 while the World Team opted for 12.a3. According to Maxime Vachier Lagrave 12.a4 is an improvement over 12.a3. ("At least 12.a4 creates a direct threat"). |
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| Mar-12-16 | | cro777: The openinig of this game seems very popular in Candidates' Tournament 2016. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 Bc5 5. c3 O-O 6. O-O d6 7. Nbd2 Ne7 8.
d4 exd4 9. cxd4 Bb6 10. Re1 Bg4 11. h3 Bh5
click for larger viewToday in the second round Caruana against Giri tried <12.Qb3>. As mentioned above, in the first round Anand played <12.a4>. Here the World Team opted for <12.a3>. From Vachier Lagrave's comments on the first round game Anand – Topalov: "12.a4 Improving on one of my moves a3. At least it creates a direct threat. 12.a3 was my latest try, but as this move looks useless I understand it doesn't appeal to everybody:
12...Rc8 (12...a6 13.Bf1 Re8 14.e5 Nfd5 15.Nc4 Ba7 16.g4 Bg6 Vachier Lagrave,M (2754)-Karjakin,S (2753) Khanty-Mansiysk 2015) <Naiditsch surprised the World Team by playing 12...Bg6>; 12.Qb3 d5 13.e5 Nd7 14.a4 a5 15.Qd1!? was my first attempt in this line. (Vachier Lagrave-Leko, Beijing 2014) The queen goes back to d1 in order to protect the now weakened d4 pawn. I have so much love for the Berlin Defense. 4.d3 has always been one of the main options to avoid the endgame." |
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| Mar-14-16 | | cro777: Caruana vs A Giri, 2016 Anand vs Caruana, 2016
In the third round Anand opted for 7.h3 preventing Black's maneuver ...Bg4...Bh5...Bg6. |
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Mar-14-16
 | | AylerKupp: <cro777> I remember that's what I wanted to play since it restricts Black on the k-side somewhat. |
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| Mar-14-16 | | cro777: <AylerKupp> It's nice to see that, two years after the game, the same lines are being discussed at the highest level, the World Championship Candidates' tournament. Evidently, there are no easy answers to questions we had discussed. |
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| Mar-15-16 | | dunamisvpm: The best game ever by the world team... 708 pages in all. Mabuhay and GOD Bless |
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| Mar-20-16 | | morfishine: <dunamisvpm: The best game ever by the world team..> Sorry, the Akobian game was better: Chessgames Challenge: The World vs Akobian, 2012 I guess you haven't been watching, but thats ok :)
***** |
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Mar-20-16
| | AylerKupp: <morfishine> Well, I disagree, I think that the play of the World team was far better in this game, and I not only watched but participated in both of them. The reason that I think that this was the best game since Chessgames Challenge: The World vs Akobian, 2012 (that was my first game so I can't comment on the earlier ones) is that in Chessgames Challenge: The World vs Akobian, 2012 Akobian played very passively and got into an inferior position early very in the game. He never tried to get counterplay by ...c5 and voluntarily closed the q-side. And we made some very good moves in that game like, IMO, 19.h3 and 25.Ra2. But, as a result of Akobian's passive play, I think that our k-side attack pretty much played itself. In contrast, I think that the team played with much more originality in this game and we gave Naiditsch more problems to solve and make wrong decisions. Giving him the option to capture with either 19...fxg6 (allowing him to win a pawn but giving us an advanced passed pawn) or 19...hxg6 was, I think, brilliant, as was the subsequent 23.Bb4. Who would refuse to not only get rid of our 2 bishops, double and isolate our b-pawns, and prevent their own c-pawn from being doubled an isolated in a semi-open file after Ba4xc6? Yet he apparently either missed or misevaluated the subtlety that after 24.axb4 his Bf7 was unable to participate in trying to stop our passed e-pawn since it couldn't get to either h4 or c5 to cover the e7 square. Yes, he could have equalized by 24...Rd4 instead of 24...c6 but he didn't appreciate the danger. And we then pounced on his 24...c6 mistake without mercy. |
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